let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> people here are afraid of a majority vote. i'm not afraid of a majority vote. i'm not afraid of that. and if the people elect these crazy tea party people to come in here and they vote to do all these whacko things, i say give them rope, a lot of rope, and then the american people will find out and we'll have a real election the next time around. >> i just want to interject here for a moment to say that the stakes here, again, it's procedure, but the stakes are basically as high as it gets. the stakes are about what are the norms that govern democratic governance. i think the history of democratic governance is that rules are important but norms are even more important. when those norms degrade you begin to get degradation of the democratic process. i think we are viewing a kind of degradation of the norms, right? this kind of disintegration in the way the body operates, and i think that there's